Sentence examples for been torn by a from inspiring English sources
A country that had been torn by a political coup found a reason, at least for the moment, to coalesce.
Algeria, a North African country with abundant oil and gas, has been torn by a decade-long insurgency by Islamic militants that has left tens of thousands dead.
Gunmen kidnapped at least 26 people on Monday from two passenger buses in Mach, a small town in the Bolan district of Baluchistan Province, which has been torn by a separatist insurgency.
A columnist in a Saudi daily, al-Sharq al-Awsat, Mashari Zaydi, suggests that Arabs have been torn by a struggle between two world-views, one hard, absolutist and aspirational, the other realist, compromising and practical.
He warned that the fabric of the new nation had been torn by a struggle that had cynically conflated politics with ethnic identity at the cost of thousands of lives.
Shubhranshu Choudhary, a former BBC journalist from the central Indian state of Chattisgarh, founded CGNet as a mailing list on a Yahoo group in 2004 to create a forum for news and challenges of the region, which has been torn by a conflict between Maoist insurgents and Indian security forces.
Since 2006, the country has been torn by an insurgency led by the militant group Al Shabab, which claims allegiance with Al Qaeda.
From 1918 to 1920 Russia was torn by a Civil War, which cost millions of lives and untold destruction.
AS I sit in the lobby of the Chicago Hyatt, waiting for a 6 00 reception, I am torn by a dilemma.
From the 1380s to the 1450s Italy was torn by a long series of large-scale wars.
GALLE, SRI LANKA For over 25 years — until 2009 — Sri Lanka, a beautiful island nation in the Indian Ocean, was torn by a brutal and bloody civil war.
